by Jason Varghese | Dec 17, 2021 | Scribbles and Confessions
2021—a year of refining. That is what my wife Michelle and I call it. A season of breaking, melting, strengthening, and molding. It wasn’t pleasant; there was pain, resistance and a lot of uncertainty. But at the end, we hit silver. Did you know that silver melts at...
by Sandy Samuel Jerome | Dec 10, 2021 | Scribbles and Confessions
Clamour—a hundred little broken pieces shattered on the floor. A panic-stricken seven-year-old—frozen, blanked-out, fretting about the consequences. A moment of silence—a lot of clarity, a certain calm. The other day, my son Judah dropped a valuable handpicked...
by Sandy Samuel Jerome | Nov 26, 2021 | Scribbles and Confessions
Freedom from disturbance; a state or period free of war or war has ended—this is the definition of ‘PEACE’ as per the Oxford Dictionary. While in a worldly sense, the definition may be apt, there is a difference when it comes to its biblical meaning. According to the...
by Oshin Daniell | Nov 19, 2021 | Scribbles and Confessions
“Come let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker.”-Psalm 95:6 Growing up, I often saw my father kneeling down in prayer—unaffected by what was happening around, or people. The frequency of these prayers increased during the time when my...
by Sandy Samuel Jerome | Nov 12, 2021 | Scribbles and Confessions
August 2013: Worry and curiosity filled us. Our heartbeats, fast. I was pregnant, and this was something that we desired and waited for. As Joel and I walked through the corridors of the hospital after my 12-week anomaly scan, I was restless. I wanted to get the scan...
by Penninah Abigail Menezes | Nov 5, 2021 | Scribbles and Confessions
Boom. Crash. Rumble. Clap I slam upright, jolting the bed and waking to water audible on the panes. I breathe in deep, aware of my hands tightly gripping the covers. I gently sweep them over the thin sheets, the bed under me as I exhale, and fall back on my...
